Hello!
In October the Tor Browser team did three releases picking up Firefox security fixes and other improvements: Tor Browser 8.0.3[1], 8.5a4[2], and for mobile 1.0a3[3].
For mobile we fixed DNS requests bypassing Tor[4] and for the desktop alpha we included a backport of a defense against fingerprinting a user by protocol handler enumeration, which Mozilla developed.[5] Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha is tested in the desktop alpha bundles as well. Moreover, all the deskop bundles contain our end-of-the-year-campaign donation banner to help us collect unrestricted money.
Non-release related work comprised (among others) severel bugs tackling reproducibility issues[6], moving our mobile build integration into tor-browser-build forward[7], and looking into integrating Torbutton tighter into the Firefox codebase directly.[8]
The full list of tickets closed by the Tor Browser team in October is accessible using the `TorBrowserTeam201810` keyword in our bug tracker.[9]
For November we plan to get our next major alpha release of Tor Browser for Android out. Highlights will be an included Orbot which makes installing a separate app unnecessary and the full integration of the mobile build process into tor-browser-build, making it possible to tackle remaining reproducibility issues[10]. Additionally, we have a bunch of UX improvements in the pipeline for that release, e.g. an own about:tor page for mobile[11] and .onion indicators in the URL bar, similar to those we already see on desktop platforms[12].
All tickets on our radar for this month can be seen with the `TorBrowserTeam201811` keyword in our bug tracker.[13]
Georg
[1] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-803 [2] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-85a4 [3] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-android-10a3 [4] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28125 [5] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1623 [6] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26475 and https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27827 [7] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26993 [8] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25013 [9] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=closed&keywords=~T... [10] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25164 [11] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27111 [12] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26690 [13] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=as...